Sampson is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in
Oconto County,
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
, United States.
The community is located at the intersection of Oconto County Highways C and D, in the town of
Morgan. It is located at
latitude
In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north– south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body. Latitude is given as an angle that ranges from –90° at the south pole to 90° at the north pol ...
44.765 and longitude -88.186 and elevation 787 feet (mean sea level).
In the unincorporated limits there is The Hilltop Tavern, a county highway shop and Sampson Valley Vineyard.
the land that comprises Sampson is the terminal moraine of the last glaciation. Over 200 feet of rich glacial till is present attracting over 1/2 dozen gravel operations supplying many concrete and road building companies.
when the federal govt signed the last treaty with the Menominee nation in 1838 it paved the way for statehood. But the state and federal govt had very few settlers to tax. When the sturgeon bay ship canal was constructed, the federal govt paid the investors with this newly acquired land which included the land at Sampson. The investors then sold it to immigrants from mainly Poland and Germany looking to create farms.
Images
File:SampsonOcontoCountyWisconsinDowntown.jpg, Looking south at downtown Sampson
File:SampsonOcontoCountyWisconsinSign.jpg, Looking south at the sign for Sampson
File:SampsonOcontoCountyWisconsinDowntown2020.jpg, Looking north at downtown Sampson
File:SampsonOcontoCountyWisconsinStoreGeneralMerchandise.jpg, Former General Merchanise store
References
Unincorporated communities in Oconto County, Wisconsin
Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin
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